Mental Health and Social Care Practitioners are everywhere urged to ‘think family’ when they are involved with an adult family member affected by a mental illness or a young person living (or in important contact) with such an adult.
How does ‘thinking family’ connect with or differ from more individual approaches to working with people affected by mental illness, and what kinds of activity/intervention does it involve?
In particular how might Mental Health and Social Care Practitioners aim to work with parents and children to support the parenting of adult service users and, for their children, to diminish negative impacts and support resilience?
Peter Bishop is employed as a Family Therapist in Adult Mental Health Services, in CAMHS, and in a Child Protection Unit. This workshop will draw on his experience in working with the multi-agency Kids Time Project in Camden and Islington.